Sweet Potato Cake Pops
By: Anna Coles
Published: Wednesday, April 18, 2012 - 6:56pm

Ingredients




CAKE
1 cup oil
2 cups grated sweet potato
¼ cup chopped pineapple
2 eggs
¾ cups raw sugar
1 ½ cups self raising flour
½ cup chopped walnuts
Zest of one orange
1 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp nutmeg
ICING
150g white chocolate
1tsp icing sugar
100g cream cheese
Zest of lemon

Preparation

1 Preheat oven to 180c 2 Combine all ingredients in a bowl and bring together. 3 Spray cake tin well and spoon in ingredients. 4 Place in oven and cook for 35 mins. 5 Remove from oven and while warm break apart in a bowl, place 100gm ricotta and mix in well. 6 Using hands roll into lollipop sized balls and place in freezer for 20 mins. 7 Remove from freezer and place lollipop stick half way into balls and return to freezer. 8 In a metal bowl over simmering water add chocolate, cream cheese, icing sugar and lemon zest  and mix until melted. 9 Remove cake pops from freezer and dip into cream cheese mix and dip in chopped walnuts. 10 Place in fridge to set.

About

These cake pops are delicious and healthy so a sweet treat the whole family will enjoy!